Definitions for maimmeɪm

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

maimmeɪm(v.t.)

  1. to deprive of the use of some part of the body, esp. by wounding.

  2. to impair; disfigure.

  3. (n.)Obs.an injury, esp. loss of a limb.

Origin of maim:

1250–1300; < AF, OF mahaignier, perh. < Frankish *maithanjan to castrate

maim′er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. maim(verb)

    injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation

    "people were maimed by the explosion"

Wiktionary

  1. maim(Verb)

    To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body.

  2. Origin: maymen, mahaymen, from maheimer, mahaigner; see mayhem.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Maim(verb)

    to deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary

  2. Maim(verb)

    to mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair

  3. Maim

    the privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary

  4. Maim

    the privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem


Translations for maim

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

maim(verb)

to injure badly, especially with permanent effects

The hunter was maimed for life.

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